Subject: RE: Book burning? Excuse me?
From: Rod Lobaugh (ral@xc.org)
Date: Fri Jun 20 1997 - 18:30:07 GMT
> I just love the irony of an admitted book burner being on a JD Salinger
> mailing list. The author whose books you choose to burn is a moot point.
> The point is you feel so passionately one way or another about them as to
> want to destroy their work. Makes me wonder if there are any other authors
> whose books you have burned. Where did you learn this behaviour? Do your
> parents burn books as well? Your brothers and sisters? Do you hang out with
> friends who burn books as well? Has pyromania consistently been a form of
> release when you're angry with literature you don't agree with?
>
I really don't suppose this is directed towards me, but since it's
sent to the whole bananafish list and not privately, I view it my
right to comment. So let me just say:
huh?
Strangely manipulative questions. All kinds of nasty intent there.
I wonder what's wrong with acting passionately about an something,
even an author. Especially when all the "passionate act" does is
make a little smoke and toss a few bucks out the back door. But hey,
isn't it a "passionate act" to insinuate someone is a nazi?
Man, we need more passionate acts in this depressing little world we
live in. But not people passing judgement and drastically labeling
others just because they take their own material objects and destroy
them in the way they see fit.
Ah, this whole conversation is a load of crap anyway. All those
questions about this guy's parents are silly and ignorant, simply
because they bare no relevance to the case at hand. The guy didn't
try to destroy Octavio Paz's work. He just torched his own copy.
He publically aired a negative opinion about Paz. If somebody airs a
positive opinion is that wrong? Why would only the opposite be
incorrect? Opinions are personal and in this forum we discuss our
own and each others. No one has to accept what someone else says.
We are all people with minds who have the ability to discern in our
own minds which opinions are valid and which are not.
" irony of an admitted book burner being on a JD Salinger
mailing list." For all we know, Salinger could be mixing chunks out
of "The Old Man and the Sea" into his dog's Purina (blasphemy!
blasphemy!)
whatever,
Rod
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